[Brandybux]

There is a desperate need for a large group of very determined, very angry, and not-to-be-denied men from outside the United States (preferably, from the Vatican) to come to America and begin a wholesale housecleaning, beginning with the bishops who hid this filth under their carpets.

The likelihood that any housecleaning can take place from within American Catholicism is nil. Even if it happened, it would lack credibility. The CYA attitude among American Catholic clerics is too well established.

[O6ret]

The CYA attitude among American Catholic clerics is too well established.

That's funny. Sounds like there's a lot of unCYA going on.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"There is a desperate need for a large group of very determined, very angry, and not-to-be-denied men from outside the United States (preferably, from the Vatican) to come to America and begin a wholesale housecleaning, beginning with the bishops who hid this filth under their carpets. "

This is not exclusively an American problem.

This from the front page of the Boston Globe:

     "At the southernmost end of the Americas, on the remote Chilean archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, a community is racked by allegations that a Catholic priest sexually abused children.
     In Ireland, where Catholic prelates are still revered figures, a well-known bishop quit last week for failing to oust a pedophile priest; the previous week, in Poland, one of the world's most devout Catholic countries, an archbishop who once served on the pope's personal staff resigned after being accused of using an underground tunnel to make sexually harassing late-night visits to local seminarians.
     Australia and Canada have been home to priest sexual abuse scandals; bishops in Belgium and France have run into legal hot water for failing to act against abusive priests. Even Italy, home to the church's headquarters, is riveted by a developing scandal in Sicily."

[Travis McGee]

I agree. The bishops and cardinals ALL have to go.

[BlessedBeGod]

There is a desperate need for a large group of very determined, very angry, and not-to-be-denied men from outside the United States (preferably, from the Vatican) to come to America and begin a wholesale housecleaning, beginning with the bishops who hid this filth under their carpets.

I think they're called the Swiss Guard. ;-)

I would welcome them, too.